Planning/3.0

Release Schedule

2018-04-24	Beginning of development phase
2018-07-03	Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date.
2018-07-10	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2018-07-17	Tag rc1
2018-07-24	Tag rc2
2018-07-31	Tag rc3
2018-08-07	Release, or if necessary, tag rc4
2018-08-14	Release, if we needed rc4

Known issues

Please list all patch series or bugs which need to be fixed for the release here. That way I can be sure I don't miss any when I'm rolling release candidates.

Fixed in rc1

• Crash with: qemu-system-aarch64 -M integratorcp,accel=qtest -nographic and then at the HMP monitor: device_add bcm2837 followed by device_add corgi-ssp

Fixed in rc2

• unit tests brokens on new gnutls with TLS 1.3 enabled https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03765.html

Fixed in rc3

• Valgrind complains about uninitialized value here: valgrind -q aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M mps2-an505,accel=qtest - fix posted: 2018-07-24 "hw/misc/tz-mpc: Zero the LUT on initialization, not just reset"
• migration crash with -device hda-duplex - fix posted: 2018-07-24: audio/hda: Fix migration
• On s390x, maxram is broken for large guests - fix posted: 2018-07-30: "s390x/sclp: fix maxram calculation"

Fixed in rc4

• assert when using vIOMMU in vhost (vhost: check region type before casting)
• memory hotplug regression when using two numa nodes
• corrupt SRAT when using numa node without memory (not a regression)
• hw/misc/macio: Fix device introspection problems in macio devices
• sam460ex: Fix PCI interrupts with multiple devices (not a regression)
• bad TCG codegen for dup_vec: "[PATCH] tcg/optimize: Do not skip default processing of dup_vec"
• Arm migration of v8M CPUs is broken (not quite a regression)
• Arm migration of KVM GICv3 is broken
• xtensa introspection bug: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03965.html
• heap overflow in slirp: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1785670
• QEMU (frontend) crashes upon warm reboot with vga=775 on Linux cmdline: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1784900

Not yet fixed in any rc

• monitor: fix oob command leak (patch on ML, regression)
• RFC: fix megasas leak (patch on ML, may not be a regression)

Issues that will not be fixed

• qemu NBD server kills connection on NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS when serving non-sector-aligned file (not a regression)
• ICMP handling on OSX hosts (not a regression)
• qemu_kill() gives poor log results when tests fail with core dump (not a regression; debug aid)
• monitor cleanup dead-locks when connected to a Spice port: "[PATCH] monitor: avoid potential dead-lock when cleaning up" (not a regression)

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/3.0 for full details.